No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” position – the idea that ...

You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy? Kind of wrong.” Yet, with the (projected) birth today of the world’s 7 billionth occupant, there’s no shortage of media hand ...

When the Reverend Thomas Malthus predicted in 1798 that the booming population would doom the world to famine and disaster, he had no idea how wrong he would prove to be. Two centuries on, as the ...

The great demographer and economist Thomas Malthus was 23 years old the last time a British summer was this rain-soaked, which was in 1789. The consequences of excessive rainfall in the late 18th ...

Over the past five years, the world's population has risen by roughly 80 million people annually, reaching an estimated 6.8 billion in 2009. Barring a sudden reversal in demographic trends, more than ...

One of the more wrong-headed predictions of a famous 19 century thinker, Thomas Malthus, was that because world population would grow more rapidly than food production, mankind faced a bleak future of ...

Among the demands of James Lee, the deranged gunman who rampaged through the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Washington, D.C., before being shot and killed late Wednesday afternoon, was a ...

Roy Scranton received funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An ...

(The Conversation) — The English cleric and economist’s name is used to malign critics of progress. But historical context sheds a different light on Malthus’ ideas, a scholar argues. (The ...